How discovery off the Norfolk coast holds the key to Norway's past

EDP24 ^ | Thursday, March 18, 2010 | Sarah Brealey

[SunkenCiv]

It is just eight inches long, but its discovery changed what we know about prehistoric Europe and our ancestors.

The harpoon, which was found by a Lowestoft fishing trawler in 1931, was yesterday under the lens of a Norwegian television crew, who are making a documentary on the origins of Norway.

It is 14,000 years old, but in perfect condition, the points carved into it still sharp. It would have been used for hunting by modern man in late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic times; a time before written records when people lived in hunter-gatherer communities.

But it is where it was found, 25 miles off the coast of Cromer, that makes it important to history. When it was dredged off the sea bed in 1931, hidden inside a lump of peat, it was taken home by Pilgrim Lockwood, the skipper of the fishing boat Colinda. It later ended up in Norwich's Castle Museum, where it fascinated archaeologists. They thought it might have been dropped by hunters on a fishing expedition. But later tests showed that the freshwater peat it came from would have been on land thousands of years ago. They realised the existence of land in the North Sea, long since drowned, called Doggerland.

[sodpoodle]

****They always have to ruin these cool articles. shows, etc. with the GW crap. Of course, they could also have talked about “as the earth continually changes, this is a great opportunity to see how humans have adapted to the changing conditions and how they responded to the environment around them,*****

IMHO - man-made global warming is dismissed with this sentence:

“As the earth warmed and sea levels rose 8,000 years ago, the land was covered by water.”

[Roccus]

Johnny Carson once said that there are less than 100 fruitcakes in the world.......they just keep getting passed around.

[cake_crumb]

They can't explain what makes ice ages end because they'd have to admit that the only way to end global cooling is...global warming. It would look too normal, maybe even too cyclical.

[skeptoid]

He obviously never experienced a Grandma's Fruit Cake.

A vendor used to send these at Christmas. . . . indescribably delicious ( made with bourbon, rum and brandy).

[Roccus]

My father’s parents (Italian immigrants) loved fruitcake. I never acquired a taste for them, however.

[colorado tanker]

maybe even too cyclical

I've had that discussion several times with alarmists, even showing them graphs of the ice core data showing the cycle. It's like talking to a brick wall, they just ignore the data and shout about "consensus" and "science."

I've concluded it's not an issue that can be rationally debated because it is an identily issue, not a science issue. These are people who have believed in their DNA that mankind and industrial civilization somehow are destroying the world. Every theory that has come along that might prove it, from overpopulation, to fertilizers and pesticides, to nuclear weapons and power, has fizzled. Then, along came global warming, which fits their preconeived beliefs like a glove. Because it so well fits their beliefs and very identity as "progressives" "saving the planet" they will not look at any evidence that this is just another in a long line of junk science theories.